Evil Quotes
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'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
Peter Dinklage
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
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In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.
Carlton Pearson
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The lesser evil is also evil.
Naomi Mitchison
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I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.
Lloyd Alexander
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Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
Wole Soyinka
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Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
Brander Matthews
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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
William Wordsworth
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Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
J. C. Ryle
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Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.
Kadmi Cohen
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We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
David Gelernter
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Evil, be thou my good.
John Milton
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Factory farming's evil; you know that.
Eric Ripert
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The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
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We have seen many instances where the free world didn't seem to understand the nature of evil or the battle against evil in their time. We've watched Nazism and fascism and imperial Japan and communism and totalitarianism, and now it seems to be we're all battling against terrorism.
Sean Hannity
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Confronting this question takes us beyond a world where the line between good and evil is sharp and bright, into a gray confusion where navigation was soul-trying work.
Andrew Delbanco
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If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
Evan Sayet
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.
William Kent Krueger